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The Benefits of Breast MRIs When Implants Are Present
In a recent study by the Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital, the importance of breast MRIs for women with implants has once again been highlighted. Simply put: breast implants can make mammograms more...
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Breastfeeding and Mammography
Breastfeeding of a child.JPG by Scott Crosby via Picasa. Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported If you are breastfeeding and want to come in for a mammogram, there are a few...
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Mammogram Reports and BI-RADS: Category 3
As a continuation of our prior posts this week on BI-RADS 1 & BI-RADS 2, today we’d like to talk about BI-RADS category 3. Remember that BI-RADS stands for Breast Imaging-Reporting and Data System,...
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Mammogram Reports and BI-RADS: Category 6
In our final posting on BI-RADS after our series (which covered BI-RADS 1, BI-RADS 2, BI-RADS 3, BI-RADS 4 and 5), today we’re going to cover the highest rating, BI-RADS 6. This is our least favorite...
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Follow-Up Breast Imaging: What Might Be Next?
Sometimes, a 4-view mammogram will not provide all the answers about your breast health. Additional imaging at the time of your mammogram or even follow-up imaging may be needed. When it comes to...
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Mammograms: The Importance of Symptoms
When it comes to your mammogram, you play a key role in making sure you get the right test at the right time. When it comes to talking about symptoms – we need you to tell us. A diagnostic mammogram...
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When Your Radiologist Orders A Biopsy
Needle Biopsy; Source: National Cancer Institute; Author: Linda Bartlett (photographer) AV Number: AV-8000-0272; via wikicommons Copyright: public domain While there is much that can be discovered...
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MRI Improvements and Greater Potential for Breast Health
four seconds by nixArt (via Flickr), Copyright Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) We can’t jump the gun and get giddy about this, but some good news in the field of breast...
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We’re Moving! (Don’t Worry We’ll Still Be Right Here for You)
MRI load-in As you know, we are radiologists who specialize in women’s health and imaging. However, we do more than just that; we work as part of a team of doctors with a broad range of specialities...
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Technology Improves Once Again: Breast MRI
So by now you’ve heard us talk a lot about dense breast issues (seriously, lots. and lots.) And you know that cancer can be masked by dense tissue on mammograms – which makes breast MRI particularly...
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Breast MRIs and the Importance of Contrast
For breast imaging, mammography is the gold standard and the most familiar. Breast MRI is being used more and more, for lots of different reasons, including screening in some high risk patients. If we...
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MR Techs: On Your Team
Opportunity for Kindness by Feed My Starving Children (via Flickr) Copyright Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) We’ve discussed some of the key players in your breast imaging recently. Hero: You....
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Your Axilla and Breast Health
Mammogram showing enlarged lymph nodes in axilla from lymphoma. We often don’t think of the armpit as a particularly attractive or important part of the body – it sort of exists by default. But, in its...
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41 Action News Notes Our Affordability, High Quality of Care
As we face an increasingly complex debate on healthcare, payment and insurance, we recognize that our patients are likely experiencing frustrations and uncertainty – as all of us in health care are...
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War on Breast Cancer: New Study
MRI Philips by jan ainali via Wikimedia Commons Copyright Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License With cancer treatment, the goal is to kill or remove every cancer cell while leaving all the...
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What is Hyperplasia?
When you have a breast biopsy, you may expect results of either no cancer (in the great majority of cases!) or cancer. It may surprise you to know that there may be a variety of other things diagnosed...
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Radiation and Risk: Head Shoulders Knees and Toes…
Crookes tube xray experiment by Wiliam J. Morton via Wikimedia Commons Copyright Public Domain As radiologists, we deal with radiation daily. We can image patients with x-rays from their head to their...
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Breast Implant Ruptures
Breast implants in hand 01 by FDA via Wikimedia Commons Copyright Public Domain While we’ve covered the issue of breast imaging and breast implants (just a few times), we haven’t addressed other issues...
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Breast MRI After Breast Cancer
An image from a screening MRI breast in a patient with lumpectomy changes from prior breast cancer in the left breast. One of the ways we try to gain understanding about the confusing and frustrating...
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